Derik Whittaker

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• Talking Mocks at TriNug, what a great time, what a great group

  Last night I had the opportunity to do my 'Taking your tests to the next level with Mocks' session to the TriNug user group. I would first like to say thanks to Doug Wilson and his entire group. They had a great turn out (45ish people) and they... Posted Nov 13 2008, 06:36 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Development, TDD, Rhino Mocks, Presentations

• Using the RhinoAutoMocker that is part of StructureMap 2.5

  One of the new features that is part of the next release of StructureMap 2.5 is a AutoMocking Container. What is an AutoMocking Container, well per Jacob over at Eleutian an AutoMocker is AutoMockingContainer is simply a IoCContainer with a custom facility... Posted Oct 05 2008, 01:58 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Development Tools, Agile, TDD, StructureMap, Rhino Mocks

• RhinoMocks new Arrange, Act, Assert does not seem to work under MSTest....odd

  -- UPDATE See text in red below -- Ok, I am in NO way trying to say that this is either Rhino's issue or MSTest. I am simply blogging this with the intent that someone can shed some insight as to what may be going on. Although, since I know that the... Posted Jul 23 2008, 10:38 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Development, TDD, Rhino Mocks

• My first impressions with Rhino Mocks 3.5 (beta)

  I finally got around to downloading and playing with the forthcoming release of Rhino Mocks v3.5 (more info here from Ayende). The major changes to this version is that the syntax has been revamped to allow for the new language features in .Net 3.5. ... Posted Jun 27 2008, 08:23 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Development Tools, Agile, TDD, Rhino Mocks

• Testing controller actions inside ASP.Net MVC

  ***** DISCLAIMER ***** The techniques and information here were not all thought up by me. I got a lot of this from Scott Hanselman's screencasts, and at looking at other MVC projects. I am only putting this into a post to have a single point of reference... Posted Mar 08 2008, 11:23 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: TDD, StructureMap, Rhino Mocks, ASP.Net MVC

• Mocking Voids with LastCall and RhinoMocks

  When following TDD, using mocking tools like RhinoMocks ( here ) or NMock ( here ) is a critical part of the process. By utilizing mocking tools you can better isolate your tests to only test the code that you have direct control over. This can prove... Posted Oct 22 2007, 07:35 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: TDD, Rhino Mocks, HowTo

• New Release of Rhino Mocks

  As you may or may not know, I am a huge fan of Rhino Mocks. Well Ayende has put out Rhino Mocks 3.2 today. Check out more information on it here . You can download it here . Posted Aug 13 2007, 08:17 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Agile, TDD, Rhino Mocks

• Mocking a Web Service Proxy

  Today I finally had to create a mock of a web service proxy, what fun. Of course the first go at it failed because I did not think about the fact that the web service proxy is NOT serializable. This sucked, so what was I to do. Well, fortunately for me... Posted Jul 05 2007, 08:09 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, .Net, TDD, Rhino Mocks

• Rhino Mocks vs NMock: Part 1, Stubs

  Over the past few months I have really started to believe in the use of Mocks. When I first started using mocks, I started with NMock (mostly because that is what we had at work). Shortly after that I started playing around with Rhino Mocks at home. Since... Posted Jun 13 2007, 08:49 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, .Net, TDD, NMock, Rhino Mocks